Neuroscience within Cognitive Science "From Mind to Brain"
Cognitive Science
Cognitive Science is an interdisciplinary research field to study the mind, intelligence and the brain.
Within the hexagon of the main research fields Psychology, Neuroscience, Linguistics, Philosophy, Education, Anthropology, Artificial Intelligence and Economics, research in Cognitive Science deepens the understanding from mind to brain, from behaviour to neurophysiological phenomena, from culture, art and social thinking to their brain based underpinnings.
Neuroscience
Neuroscience combines different scientific research areas in which the structure and functioning of nervous systems are examined.
Due to the variety of methods used, neuroscientific research is conducted by scientists from many different disciplines such as physiology, psychology, medicine, biology, computer science, or mathematics together with related scientific fields such as information technology or robotics.
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Current Research Projects
We are the host institution to many research projects funded by the University of Vienna and (inter-)national third-party funding agencies.
ÖAW
AI-supported adaptive serious gaming
Period: October 2017 - September 2020
Principal investigators: DI Barbara Göbl, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Slunecko,
Funding program: ÖAW DOC Team
Involved fields: Cultural anthropology, Cognitive science
ÖAW
Difficulty and strategies in emotion regulation
Period: October 2017 - September 2020
Principal investigators: Dayana Hristova, M.Sc., Dr. Michael Kimmel, Univ.-Prof. Thomas Slunecko,
Funding program: ÖAW DOC Team
Involved fields: Cultural anthropology, Cognitive science
FWF
Embodied Creativity in Dyadic Interaction
Period: June 2015 - (preliminary December 2017) prolonged and running
Principal investigator(s): Dr. Michael Kimmel
Funding program: FWF Stand-alone Projects
Involved fields: Cognitive Ethnography (Empirical Phenomenology, Joint Action/Interaction, Embodied Cognition)
FWF
The Cultural Eye / The Gendered Eye
Period: September 2013 - (preliminary Mai 2017) pro-longed and running
Principal investigator(s): Univ.-Prof. Raphael Rosenberg
Funding program: FWF Stand-alone Projects
Involved fields: Art History, Psychology
Publications
Mitoyen, C., Quigley, C., & Fusani, L. (2019). Evolution and function of multimodal courtship displays. Ethology, 125(8), 503-515. doi.org/10.1111/eth.12882
Adriaense, J., Martin, J. S., Schiestl, M., Lamm, C., & Bugnyar, T. (2019). Negative emotional contagion and cognitive bias in common ravens (Corvus corax). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 116(23), 11547-11552. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1817066116
Leder, H., Tinio, P., Brieber, D., Kröner, T., Jacobsen, T., & Rosenberg, R. (2019). Symmetry is Not a Universal Law of Beauty. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 37(1), 104-114. doi.org/10.1177/0276237418777941
Jovicic, S., Göbl, B., & Hristova, D. (2019). Digitale Anthropologie aus kultur- und sozialanthropologischer Sicht. (OVE Schriftenreihe). Wien: OVE Österreichischer Verband für Elektrotechnik.
Brieber, D., Forster, M., & Leder, H. (2018). On the Mutual Relation Between Art Experience and Viewing Time. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. doi.org/10.1037/aca0000210
Hartner-Tiefenthaler, M., Rötzer, K., Bottaro, G. M., & Peschl, F-M. (2018). When relational and epistemological uncertainty act as driving forces in collaborative knowledge creation processes among university students. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 28, 21-40. doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2018.02.013
Spee, B. T. M., Ishizu, T., Leder, H., Mikuni, J., Kawabata, H., & Pelowski, M. (2018). Neuropsychopharmacological aesthetics: A theoretical consideration of pharmacological approaches to causative brain study in aesthetics and art. In Progress in Brain Research: The Arts and The Brain Psychology and Physiology Beyond Pleasure (Vol. Volume 237, 2018, pp. 343-372). (Progress in Brain Research).
Human, S., Bidabadi, G., Peschl, F-M., & Savenkov, V. (2018). An Enactive Theory of Need Satisfaction. In V. C. Müller (Ed.), Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence 2017 (pp. 40-42). (Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics; Vol. 44). Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96448-5_5